Why Cloud Costs Spiral
Many UK SMEs migrate to AWS and then experience bill shock as workloads grow. Most cloud waste is fixable with the right tooling.
Top Strategies
- Right-size EC2 instances using AWS Compute Optimizer
- Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for predictable workloads (save up to 72%)
- S3 Intelligent-Tiering for object storage
- AWS Cost Anomaly Detection for early alerts
- Spot Instances for fault-tolerant batch jobs
UK-Specific Considerations
VAT on AWS services (20%) adds up. Consolidated billing and AWS Enterprise Discount Programmes are available via AWS Partners like DevSimplex.